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atop

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adjective, adverb

on or at the top.

preposition

on the top of: atop the flagpole.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Origin:
1650–60; a-¹ + top¹

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Example Sentences

To create your own instant workspace anywhere, put a flat birch hollow-core door atop two adjustable sawhorses.

Sitting atop the narrow shelf above the sink, imperfect teacups make good holders for air plants.

Center the large pot atop the steel mesh and slide it down the tubing until it sits firmly on the mesh.

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To create your own instant workspace anywhere, put a flat birch hollow-core door atop two adjustable sawhorses.

Sitting atop the narrow shelf above the sink, imperfect teacups make good holders for air plants.

Center the large pot atop the steel mesh and slide it down the tubing until it sits firmly on the mesh.

Cohn shed light on the men atop the secretive investment bank.

Current reality does appear to perch humans atop a planetary food chain.

Atop the rostrum he would impugn his enemies, excite crowds to action and deflect his detractors' barbs.

News agency footage showed a man stranded atop a bus, as it flowed into another bus, and he jumps to the more stable rooftop.

Mathematicians are still struggling to understand what happens atop your morning.

Prehistoric masons built the ringed monuments atop one another and buried them forming a hill.

Pieces of fish coated with pungent black-bean garlic sauce steam atop melt-in-your-mouth tofu pedestals.

Back then it was a miniature surfboard which sat atop.

Dozens of parents climb atop chairs or the step stools that many have brought to get an unobstructed view.

None of the half-dozen federal regulators, which sit atop hundreds of state rulemakers, sees the whole map.

Bangladeshi migrants sleep atop the roof of a speeding train.

With the environment now high atop the public agenda, green jobs are more popular than ever.

Set atop a tectonic hotspot, the small island is home to breathtaking eruptions and other geologic sites.

Serve atop mashed potatoes for a satisfying comfort meal.

Sometimes, you need to see grown men standing atop an enlarged pool table and kicking soccer balls for points.

Owens atop the complaint makes it even more noteworthy, he added.

But the police carrying automatic rifles atop the armoured vehicles did not attempt to deploy on the streets.

Then you'll come across two clumps of trees atop a hill.

Instead it lays an artifical cell membrane atop a gold electrode.

One result: the fighting atop the limestone produced casualties at almost five times the rate of the fighting atop the dolomite.

Perched atop a ridge, the garden takes full advantage.

The quick release mounting case into which the iPhone settles can be removed and sat atop a table or screwed onto a tripod.

Build a treehouse atop it that overhangs the neigbhor's property.

Many specialise in making content that sits atop the web's existing platforms-they are as much publishing outfits as tech firms.

The new craft's body was constructed around a rotor, which allowed the replica to be manipulated atop a five-story-tall column.

The only question is whether the launch escape system will ever find use atop a real rocket.

Townspeople sit atop roofs with lit candles to enjoy the harmonious spectacle.

Floppy top makes it hard to mount a star atop the tree.

The gray base station sucks up air and forces it through the circular blue thing that sits atop the rig.

It had been a full month since he had experienced his first serious symptoms atop the glacier.

No one would stop his washing machine while running because a cloud is atop his home.

In a nocturnal rendezvous, two green tree frogs meet face-to-face atop a leaf in.

Seven wooden shelves were stacked atop one another and arranged in two long rows.

The animal had large, powerful jaws, which secured the predator a place atop the local food chain.

Water spills from a copper pipe into a shallow basin atop a powder-coated steel obelisk, then recirculates from a second basin.

Bureaucrats still snooze atop mountains of public data, with no political imperative to release.

Millions more have now clothes to wear, or have a roof atop their heads.

They keep you atop your air mattress the entire night.

Penn-only a glowing globe atop a metal pole casting its electric illumination on the pavement.

The female frogs carry their tadpoles to safety atop the leaves until they grow into frogs.

Simply pull down the lever atop each outer edge of the lens to free it from the frame.

He perches his ample behind atop his throne, and his red trousers are rent asunder with a sharp rip.

Here, atop a mossy platform and around a young sapling, he has woven his spire of sticks and twigs.

Mathematicians are still struggling to understand what happens atop your morning cappuccino.

It was a peculiar feeling, being so far below the surface but seeming to be perched atop the sunlit atrium.

Atop one wall, she installed a dramatic rusted-steel fence that curves around and cants toward the patio.

The chip tested was a desktop version, sitting atop a big, netbook-unfriendly motherboard.

Most people, myself included, enjoy having vegetables atop our hamurgers.

And walking trails, which offer dramatic views from atop the cliffs, have been relocated farther from the crumbling edges.

To dance across a pond…or stand atop a puddle…mosquitoes use their superhydrophobic legs.

He finds somewhere else to be, or he stays inside his house, with its many framed prints of trim little ships atop frisky seas.

Nearby, a stack of giant round metal baskets sits atop billowing jets of steam.

But the preview above reveals basic animated segments of laid atop old audio.

If you must do all of the above, don't use a swastika atop a flak gun as your avatar.

The cliff borders the dome of layered deposits that sits atop the red planet's north pole.

Search teams experienced quickly deteriorating conditions as the mountain shifted and settled atop the mine.

It is fantastic to see him sitting atop the feeders.

The hands tip back and the camera sits atop the meat of the thumb instead of tipping forward.

Its iconic green head sits atop a white neckband that sets off.

If anything its making a seed of a small revenge atop a big revenge.

Kite himself, pictured balancing on his head atop a pole while playing the trumpet.

The floor consists of brick set in sand atop filter fabric, for easy drainage.

They spend their time atop coastal ice floes, eating ice and diving for fish.

Trying to measure brain ambiguity atop this seems an exercise in futility.

Tubular flowers in shades of pink to apricot, yellow, and cream atop tall spikes in spring.

One young male was found buried atop the remains of seven wild cattle.

The box atop a wind turbine's tower, set back from the blades and rotor, is known as a nacelle.

Dark green, fan-shaped leaves atop stiff-looking trunk covered with brown, hairy fiber.

Have each group place one transparency map atop the other and then put a blank transparency sheet over those two.

Coral reefs form when colonies of tropical marine plants and animals with limestone skeletons rise atop earlier generations.

Wide crown of stiff, gray-green, feather-shaped leaves atop a slender trunk.

The colorful mixture of fruit and nuts makes for a festive presentation atop rich shortbread.

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World English Dictionary

atop (əˈtɒp)

—*adv*
1.	on top; at the top

—*prep*
2.	on top of; at the top of

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Word Origin & History

atop

1650s, from a- (1) + top. Two words or hyphenated at first; not fully established as one word till late 19c.

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